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(No Model.)

A. REVEL. UMBRELLA TIP 0UP.

No. 457,607. Patented Augrll, 1891.

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UNITED STATES ANTOINE REVEL, OF LYONS, FRANCE.

PATENT OFFICE.

UBMRELLA TIP-CU P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 457,607, dated August11, 1891.

Application filed June 8, 1891. Serial No. 395,470. (No model.) Patentedin France May '7. 1890, No. 205,435, and in England November 17,1890,110. 18,560. I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANTOINE REVEL, a citizen of the French Republic,residing atLyons, in France, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Umbrella-Closers, (for which I have obtained LettersPatent in France, No. 205,435, dated May 7, 1890, and in England No.18,560, dated November 17, 1890,) of which the following is aspecification.

This invention consists in a spring-actuated tubular holder designed toretain the ends of the ribs of an umbrella near the stick; and theobject of the invention is more especially to provide such a holder sothat it may be sold ready-made with the handle for fixing on a stick.

The improvements consist in the construction hereinafter described andclaimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section. Fig. 2is a side view. Fig. 3 is a side view showing the parts in a differentposition. Fig. 4 is a section showing a modification.

A tube 25 of small diameter is inserted into a pit cut therefor in thehandle P, so as to project from said pit. Near the outer edge of thistube tis an outwardly-extended flange t to prevent the sliding holderpassing off said tube. The said sliding holder is a tube g, having at ornear its center a cross-diaphragm g with a hole in the center sufficientonly for the passage of said tube. Against the end of the handle is anannular plate 0, slightly flanged at the edge to serve as a guide forthe sliding holder g, and between the sliding holder and the annularplate is a spiral spring 7', encircling the inner tube t and tending topress the holder g away from the annular plate 0. The umbrella-stick bis intended to be fitted in the inner tube t, which is of sufficientdiameter to receive it. Part of the rim of the holder g may be cut awaywith a recess 9 to receive the head of a pin p. This pin may be driveninto the stick or it may be formed as a projection on the flange F, orit may be made as a raised rib on the tube t, taking into the recess 9which is then located in the inner edge of the diaphragm g, as in Fig.4. By this device, after the holder g is drawn back from rib ends it maybe slightly turned to bring the pin out of line with the slot and infront of the solid metal of the holder, so that the latter cannot bemoved back onto the ribs until released by turning back to its formerposition.

I claim as my invention The combination, with an umbrella orparasolhandle P, having a pit therein, of the tube 15, fixed in said pit, aflange t on said tube, a flanged plate 0 on the end of said handle, arib-end holder g, having a diaphragm gsliding on said tube 2, a plate c,a spiral spring 0', located between said plate 0 and diaphragm g, adetaining projection 19, and a recess g in which said projection isadapted to take when the rib-end holder is in position for retaining theribs, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have signed this specification in presence of twowitnesses.

ANTOINE REVEL. lVitnesses:

L. BROCARD, GEo. D. FAIRFIELD.

